Shipping package



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MICHAEL A. ROLLMAN, OF MON'I JOY, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIPPING PACKAGE.

Application led November 25, 1922.

To all 'whom t may concer/a:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL A. ROLL- MAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Mount Joy, county of Lancaster, and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping Packages, of which the following is a full and clear specication.

rlhe object of this invention is to so pack a plurality of disassembled ice-cream freezers that the cubical area of the package will be reduced to a minimum, to thereby save in freight charges.

In the drawing- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of the package;

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof, with the top-flaps thrown open;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, except that the parts in the upper part of the package are removed;

Fig. 4 is a group perspective of the disassembled parts of the freezer.

I have shown my invention as adapted to the type of freezer disclosed inmy copending application Serial No. 499,494, iiled September 9, 1921, which consists of a metal ice-bucket 5, a cream-can 6, a cream-can top 7, a gearing-bridge 8, and a dasher 9. The bucket and cream-can taper downwardly their full length and are entirely without outwardly-projecting beads at their lower ends. The ice-bucket is provided with an external bead 10 near its upper end.

I have illustrated my invention as applied to packing six complete freezers. The six ice-buckets are made into two nested sets and the sets are placed alongside each other in the shipping-box 11, one set being inverted to permit the tapered walls to come close together in overlapping relation. In view of the fact that there are no external beads on the lower parts of the buckets, they fit snugly together the full extent of the telescoping, thereby preventing rattling in shipping. In view of this nice fitting of the nested buckets, it is important to provide means for preventing them being jammed or wedged so tightly together as to be difficult toI separate; for this purpose, I provide the aforesaid external bead l0, this bead being so positioned that it will rest upon the top edge of the outer bucket 'the bucket sets.

Serial No. 603,201.

after the bucket-s have come to a nice t, and thus prevent wedging.

The cream-cans are nested in the same manner and one set is placed in each of In the space betweenthe cream-cans `and the ice-buckets, the lids 7 and the dashers 9 may be packed, it being desirable to pack all the lids in one space and all the dashers in the other, the dash` ers being desirably enclosed in a paper wrapper 12, to prevent them banging about and thus injuring themselves or the softer metal of the cream-cans.

After the foregoing parts have been packed in the manner set forth, I place on top of the buckets a paper-board partition 13, and in the narrow space between this partition and the top wall of the container, I pack the gearing-bridges 8. These are packed alongside each other in overlapped relation., so as to lie within the narrow space, the gearing-hangers 14 lying close together and serving to space the bridgeplates in such manner that the top ones will lie iiat against the top wall of the container and the underneath ones will lie flat against the upper surface of the partition-board 13. The handle-cranks are turned so as to lie in overlapped relation with the hand-grips against the end walls of the box.

It will be observed that it is important that both the buckets and the cream-cans shall be tapered and also that the sizes of the buckets and cream-cans shall be so proportioned that any given number of buckets when nested will provide a space approximately equal tothe length of the nested set of an equal number of creamcans.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A shipping package for dismantled icecream-freezers of the type wherein the bucket and cream can are both tapered to provide nesting in shipping, the sizes of the buckets and cream-cans being so proportioned that a given number of b-uckets when nested will provide a space in the inner bucket approximately equal to the length of the nested set of an equal number of cream-cans7 comprising a shipping box, two sets of such ice-buckets enclosed within said box side-by-side, each set consisting of a plurality of dismantled nested buckets, and two sets of such cream-cans each consisting of a plurality of dismantled nested crearncans, onesetbeingl enclosedwithin the outer bucket of eachset of said ice-buckets.

2. In an ice-creain-freezer shipping package, a container, two sets of nested icebuckets therein, a nested set of cream-cans placed Within each set of buckets, cantops and dashers placed Within the spaces between the cream-cans` andY the, buckets, a partition placed on top of the nested buckets', andl gearing-bridges@ lying. inthe space between the,Y partition and the. top Wallet the container and abutting. against saidtop Wall and Said partition, said bridges; lying in overlapped relation With theirhandcranksin overlapped relation and the Lgrips of these hand-cranks abutting the end Walls of the container.

Il. In an ice-cream freezer shipping pnckage, a container, two sets of nested ice-buckets therein, a nested Set of cream-cans placed Within each set of buekets,'cantops and dashers placed within the spaces between the creani--cans and the buckets, a. partition placed on top of the nested buckets, and gearing-bridges lying in the space between the partition andthe top wall of the container and abutting' against said top Wall and said-partition.

In testimony .whereof I hereunto allix my signature.

MICHAEL A. ROLLMAN, 

